Objects and Light

October 12th, 2010

Wilson showcased his work. What was caught was he was still investigating the creation of an image by having a solid object intersect with the light to produce the image. In his case, to use ash that would intersect against the projection to reveal the image in segments.

Critique:
Nancy Daly: What is the importance of having the material be ash? The video doesn’t seem to reveal its materiality.

Lloyd Lowe, Jr.: What’s the presentation?

Wilson Hill: Streaming projection that has no definitive end. Maybe a flat-screen monitor to obtain the darkest blacks.

Timothy Druckrey; Look into LED’s, they are super bright. Commercial projectors are weak/useless; create your own. Adopt the projection to your own powers and needs.

Gavin Stewart: Using a projector, but replacing the glass with an LCD and then replacing the bulb. That would produce an HD image with the needed brightness.

Timothy Druckrey: Presentation is important; we don’t want to make it into just a performance or theater. The image itself is of high importance. The fact that it is aimed at the sky; you imagine something enormous. Reconsider a smaller scale to rework how to demonstrate this metaphor that is being created. Scale in projection, then the intimate scale. I think that it might have to be live to possibly allow people to perform it. Think about how do special effects really work and their purpose. The specific illusion to create a certain effect. The reflection on the effect that the act produces. An interior space reduces the amount of variables you can’t control, and allow for greater power in choices of what you’d want to do. This will create a command over this situation. Look back at Etienne-Jules Marey, he did photographs of smoke and the patterns of smoke. Intense research that was then used by the aeronautical industry. This led to the basis of flight and measurements. As a scientist he was drawn to how things were traced; EKG for example. Look into the book “The Passion for the Trace”. There are artists that live out their lives just doing experiments and not quite finished work, but pushing boundaries of their craft. But all this only after there is an intent of control within the experience they wish to create.